Lysistrata 2009: Kenyan Women on Sex Strike

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In 12th grade, I played Lysistrata, the main character in an Aristohpones play by the same name. Clever Lysistrata gets her fellow Greek women to withold pussy privileges in hopes of ending the Peloponnesian War. And it works. Random detail: I asked if I could read her character with a Brooklyn accent, which gave the whole production a uniquely fabu edge, I thought.

I too now wonder how this was allowed to be part of the curriculum. But this play only provided the stage with a tale we know all too well in our personal sex lives. Who among us hasn't witheld head or a rim job in hopes of accomplishing some greater good? I know for a fact that Sam didn't give me head on my birthday (he says) because he was trying to show me that temper tantrums aren't sexy (I'd just had one). And I'm trying to get him to quit smoking, so I've been witholding head.

In Kenya, at the beginning of the month, thousands of women took a vow to withold sex from their husbands for a week to protest Kenya's "bickering leaderhip," stating they didn't want a repeat of the post-election violence of 2008. The article says that the coalition has asked sex workers to take up the cause too, and that they were willing to pick up the tab.

According to a CNN article, a man tried to sue for damages and mental anguish. But beside this guy, the boycott was successful in prompting leaders to meet. The pussy wins... AGAIN! If only the abstinence-only people could harness the vaginas of their constituents for the greater good of better American politics. Sigh...